2020-2-20 15:49 |
Brazil’s central bank president stated that its new payment platform is intended to compete with blockchain-based payment technologies
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The head of Germany’s central bank, Dr. Jens Weidmann, told Handelsblatt that the European Union should refrain from launching a digital euro. Instead, banks should improve their payment services to compete with the growing cryptocurrency market.
2020-1-15 20:00 | |
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Electra project to beta-test ElectraPay, a cryptocurrency payment system for merchants
2020-1-3 04:14 | |
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Ripple, Inc. looks to be on an expansion spree, despite the industry-wide layoffs with smaller crypto startups. Not even the price drop of XRP seems to faze the company, which is on a mission to offer a payment protocol to compete with SWIFT.
2019-12-18 23:35 | |
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Sony today revealed it’s repackaging PlayStation Now, halving the price and adding several popular current-gen games. Now the service is priced to compete with its upcoming cloud gaming competition, and it might also survive the transition to the next generation.
2019-10-1 20:38 | |
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Most of the major traditional payment platforms currently available have tried, with little success, to ignore the payment solutions being offered by cryptocurrency services. Now according to reports, PayPal is set to launch its own mobile payments app.
2019-7-18 09:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook confirmed that its new cryptocurrency Libra isn’t designed to kill or compete with bitcoin. David Marcus, the man leading Facebook’s crypto efforts, said Libra and bitcoin can co-exist with differing use cases and that’s he a big fan of BTC.
2019-6-21 14:39 | |
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Aussie Digital is ready to change the Ecommerce landscape and shake up the status quo set by blockbuster names such as Amazon and eBay. Unlike other platforms, Aussie Digital’s plethora of retailers will accept Crypto & Fiat as payment for all kinds of goods and services.
2019-5-8 13:12 | |
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According to a recent report released by CoinDesk, the investment banking giant JP Morgan Chase aims at expanding its blockchain payment services to reach 220 banking members. The intention is to include settlement features and compete against companies such as Ripple.
2019-4-22 17:47 | |
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One Payment Systems plans to compete directly with the credit card networks using Stellar's ultra-fast processing technology. We have already begun developing our exchange network which will provide liquidity to our payment processing system.
2019-4-16 17:03 | |
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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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Bitcoin will “surpass all competition” from other payment systems such as Visa and MasterCard within ten years if current growth continues, new research has concluded. Bitcoin Will Beat Visa, MasterCard In a study comparing Bitcoin to legacy payment providers, which also included PayPal, DataLight made the forecast after noting the cryptocurrency’s rapid advances since its inception in 2009.
2019-4-3 14:30 | |
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Chinese tech giant Tencent is looking to enter India‘s payment market with a UPI-based (Unified Payments Interface) WeChat Pay app, according to Entrackr. The report notes Tencent execs met with the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) three weeks ago to discuss obtaining a license, with plans to launch the service in May or June.
2019-3-22 14:11 | |
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Cryptocurrencies continue to make their way into the world of finance and traditional payment systems. Despite some skeptical statements and the bearish 2018, their adoption has dramatically increased to the point that many experts believe that eventually crypto use could complement or even compete directly with the traditional fiat system.
2018-12-21 05:56 | |
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A new stress test revealed that the scaling of the DASH coin is almost limitless. According to its developers, DASH network will be able to compete with major payment providers like PayPal. The result of this test should be useful in revitalizing the crypto. This is after the price of DASH fell by over 30% […]
2018-12-6 23:09 | |
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A new stress test has shown that the scaling of the cryptocurrency Dash has almost no limits. According to the developers, the network will soon be able to compete with other payment providers such as PayPal.
2018-12-6 01:23 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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A new patent awarded to global lending and payment solutions company Mastercard points to the giant developing blockchain technology that supports multiple currencies. It’s one of a number of patent applications from Mastercard and hints that the company may have big plans to compete in the blockchain-based payments marketplace.
2018-10-10 02:29 | |
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Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
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US tech giant IBM has developed a new payments system that relies on blockchain technology. The solution is based on the Stellar network and will compete with the traditional Swift system.
2018-9-4 12:45 | |
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The new project of a Korean e-commerce company TMON aims at creating blockchain-based digital payment system. The solution is expected to lower the fees and help small retailers compete against industry giants.
2018-8-31 23:55 | |
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An influx of lightning apps are mostly silly, but they demo a serious point: the tech enables bitcoin to compete with traditional payment rails.
2018-8-10 07:00 | |
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Access to personal financial data and the emergence of blockchain technology have been the catalyst for a revolution in the banking sector. At the start of this year, banks within the European Union were ordered by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to grant customers access to their personal data.
2018-7-31 20:42 | |
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Cosmos is the internet of blockchains - an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected, blockchain-based apps and services. Powered by the Interchain Stack, Cosmos boasts over 100 IBC-enabled chains. - Medium
Aethir, Beam Foundation, and MetaStreet have partnered to launch Tactical Compute, a $40 million initiative designed to meet the growing demand for computing power in artificial intelligence and blockchain.
More than 24,000 United Nations staff are set to gain blockchain skills as the UN expands its academy, developed in partnership with the Algorand Foundation. The United Nations Development Programme is expanding its blockchain education academy to provide training to…
BlackRock is expanding its tokenized fund — BUIDL — to multiple blockchains. BlackRock has announced the expansion of its BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund — BUIDL — which is tokenized by Securitize, to five additional blockchains: Aptos (APT), Arbitrum…
The blockchain industry might get a boost as former U.S. President Donald Trump wins a second term, promising to keep his promises, including a long list of Bitcoin- and crypto-related pledges.
After more than a year of hype and expectation, layer-2 network Scroll's governance token launch is beginning to fall short of expectations after being plagued by token allocation issues.
Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain data firm, plans to launch a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange next month, according to reporting from Bloomberg. Backed by investors like OpenAI founder Sam Altman, the startup is relocating its operations from London and New York to…